In this presentation William R. Ferris discusses his book, "Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues" (University of North Carolina Press, Fall 2009).

Correspondence, diaries, journals, clippings, maps, photographs, and other papers of William Lee (1772-1840) of Boston, Mass., Washington, D.C., and France and of other Lee family members. Lee's correspondence and diaries detail his experiences as a commercial agent and secretary to the U.S. Legation in France. Also includes papers of Lee's wife Susan Palfrey Lee (1767-1822) relating to family matters and social life in Washington, ...

Correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, publications, printed matter, and other records relating to the functions of the organization. Includes material pertaining to the evaluation of institutions applying for local chapters and book awards granted annually by Phi Beta Kappa. Subjects include the American Scholar, the Key Reporter, liberal arts studies, collegiate athletics, history of Phi Beta Kappa, and role of honor societies in education. ...

Manuscript. Explanatory manuscript page note reads: "A German manuscript cook book treating of cakes, sweets, and ... various made dishes such as soups or entrees ... it is evidently a copy from a much older work as appears from there being so few corrections, and frequent efforts to imitate old lettering in another and earlier hand." Additional date on t.p. in another hand: "1791". ...

Lawyer. Correspondence, reports, speeches, notes, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material reflecting Tabor's part in the activities of Czechoslovak-Americans on behalf of the Republic of Czechoslovakia.

Correspondence, subject files, printed matter, and other papers relating mainly to Goebel's career as a professor of German language and literature, his removal from the Stanford University faculty, and German-American affairs. Includes Goebel family correspondence.

Continental Army officer, jurist, merchant, and legislator, of Delaware County, N.Y. Family and general correspondence, orders, petitions, and legal and other papers of Foote and various members of his family. Topics include the Tammany Society of New York, the death of Alexander Hamilton, the War of 1812, the incident aboard the frigate Chesapeake, the first Seminole War, and New York politics.

Ms. Title supplied by cataloger. Forms filled-in by hand. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Website. "糸口山製造所引充" appears often in documents.

Psychiatrist, author, lecturer, and translator of Sigmund Freud. Family papers, correspondence, speeches, writings, organization records, photographs, and printed matter primarily documenting Brill's career and his role in the psychoanalytic movement.

Conservationist, zoologist, and taxidermist. Correspondence, diaries and journals, production materials for articles and books, notebooks, financial papers, clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and other papers reflecting Hornaday's career, particularly as director of New York Zoological Park, 1896-1926.

Army officer and superintendent of public buildings, Washington, D.C. Correspondence, diaries and journals concerning Rockwell's investments in commercial enterprises with James A. Garfield, Garfield's assassination and his appointment controversy with Roscoe Conkling, and Rockwell's Civil War experiences, including the Battle of Shiloh.

Asian affairs analyst and official at the United States Department of Defense. Correspondence, professional subject file, speeches and writings, printed material, and other papers documenting Mintz's career as an expert on Indonesia and Southeast Asia, including service with the Defense Department and as an analyst and press officer with the Indonesian delegation to the United Nations.

Correspondence, memoranda, interview and oral history transcripts, speeches, writings, notebooks, reports, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers relating chiefly to Martin's service as presidential advisor and civil rights liaison for presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Jimmy Carter and to his writings which include articles, newspaper columns, and memoirs. Documents his work in establishing African Americans as a political power within ...

Jurist, secretary of health, education and welfare, and U.S. representative and senator from and governor of Connecticut. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, press material, voting records, statements, congressional testimony, printed matter, scrapbooks, other administrative and legislative matter, and miscellaneous material, including microfilm of correspondence and scrapbooks, relating chiefly to Ribicoff's senatorial career.

Narrative by Smith describing his experiences aboard the whaler Nile of Greenport, N.Y., under the command of Capt. Conklin, and his voyage (1851 September 1-1854 March 12) to the whaling grounds in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific via the Azores, Cape of Good Hope, Indian Ocean, and New Zealand. Smith documents the methods of capturing whales and extracting whale oil, shipboard ...

Nick Spitzer presents a talk titled "In Katrina's Wake: The Building Trades in New Orleans." This presentation focuses on the historical and contemporary relationships of skilled building trades workers in New Orleans to the musical and visual culture of their place. Interviews with veteran workers in the local music and work communities point to the resilience and creative spirit of New Orleans communities as ...

Correspondence, minutes and agenda of meetings, and other records relating to the committee's surveys of materials for research in the humanities and the social sciences. Includes information on library and archives projects, union catalogs, permanence of paper stock, offset reproductions, microreproductions, other duplicating techniques, sound reproduction, and copyright. Correspondents include Robert C. Binkley, Solon J. Buck, Robert Treat Crane, A.F. Kuhlman, Waldo Gifford Leland, ...

Print. Fronticpiece to "Wheat Autograph Album" (General).

Jurist and U.S. senator and representative from North Carolina. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, legal papers, genealogical material, financial papers, and printed matter concerning local, southern, and national politics, the Whig Party in the South, economic and social conditions in North Carolina, the Mangum plantation, and education of the Mangum children.